- 80% of KCC's Travel and Tourism graduates enter the tourism and hospitality industry in New York (the industry is the City's largest employer).
- The City's fashion industry regularly draws Kingsborough Community College graduates in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing into positions as fashion buyers, product managers, and customer service managers.
- 100% of the College's 1997 graduates from the Secretarial/Office Administration program found jobs, salaried from $24,000 to $36,000, in corporations, schools, professional offices, and hospitals in the New York area.
- The Health Workforce Retraining Program, funded by the State Department of Health, is retraining skilled employees, whose jobs are at risk at Methodist Hospital, for newly created positions.
- A $600,000 grant from the State Department of Education, under the Vocational and Applied Technology Act, provides counseling, career exploration, and tutorials for 3,000 students, enabling their transition into the metropolitan work force.
- A New York State Small Business Development Center is now in its seventh year on the College campus. Last year the KCC Center assisted about 750 clients and leveraged an estimated $5 million in economic impact.
- Efforts to draw increasing numbers of women and minority students into science and mathematics career paths are a high priority at the Kingsborough High School for the Sciences, which opened in 1993. The School's excellence annually draws 5,000 applications for its 200 seats.
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Public colleges and universities are a major source of jobs, generating a median average of 1.6 jobs in the community or state for every college or university job held.
- Value Added: The Economic Impact of Public Universities (NASULGC)
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